| Current medical profession challenges that hinder | | | | Leaffer, T, Gonda, B. The Internet: An |
| patient education: | | | | underutilized tool in patient education. Comput Nurs |
| - time constraints | | | | 1996; 14:235-238 |
| - insurance carriers | | | | 69% of patients admitted to not reading the |
| - low reimbursement rates | | | | consent form before signing it. |
| - medical malpractice risk | | | | Lavelle-Jones, C. Factors affecting quality of |
| - need to market | | | | informed consent. BMJ 1993;306:885-890 |
| - growing competition | | | | 50% of U.S. adults or 90 million Americans have |
| - time consuming education seminars | | | | difficulty understanding health information. |
| - heavy schedules | | | | The Institute of Health's statistics |
| - increasing demand on staffand more. | | | | Four rock solid benefits of online patient education |
| These pressures affect patient care and | | | | - Save money and time: requires minimal staff |
| treatment outcomes. Patient Education Systems | | | | time, allows reallocation of valuable resources, |
| were developed to overcome these challenges | | | | reduces the frequency of marketing seminars, |
| and help health care specialists provide better care | | | | decreases the first office visit length, reduces the |
| for their patients. | | | | number of patient revisits |
| Research studies assert the need of convenient | | | | - Enhance patient satisfaction: serves your |
| and effective web-based educational platforms | | | | patients well, engages your patients into the |
| for patients | | | | health process, provides tailored, comprehensive |
| Health specialists need methods to provide | | | | educational courses, better manages your rapidly |
| education to their patients. The best proven | | | | increasing number of patient records |
| solution is a web-based educational platform that | | | | - Improve risk management: reduces exposure to |
| produces consistently high levels of learning | | | | frivolous litigation, assesses patient comprehension, |
| retention. Listed below are just a few research | | | | tracks patient participation, enhances informed |
| excerpts that demonstrate the advantages of | | | | consent process |
| using this advanced educational approach. | | | | - Expand business reach: captures new patients |
| Computer-based patient education has been | | | | from a wider geographic area, qualifies your |
| shown to be very effective in improving | | | | prospective patients, personalizes and deliver your |
| knowledge and clinical outcomes. | | | | marketing messages, promotes your services |
| Lewis, D. Computers in Patient Education, | | | | online, optimizes the competitiveness of your |
| Computers , Informatics, Nursing 21(2):88-96, | | | | website |
| 2003 | | | | Who can benefit? |
| 50% of research participants reported that using | | | | Surgical practices of single and multiple surgeons, |
| the internet made them feel more satisfied with | | | | medical groups, hospitals, insurance carriers, and |
| their treatments. | | | | other entities in the medical field. |